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When adopting agile teams can use (external) coaches and mentors. But teams can also develop themselves by having team members mentoring and coaching each other. Team members can learn skills and abilities from other team members in multidisciplinary teams, enabling the team to grow as a whole and become self-organized.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.-- Sarah Hoyt

It really doesn't. I've known more than a few 'Softies, and they are really trying to change the way the company does stuff. Granted, they're almost entirely within the DevDiv org (or rather "Server and Tools"). Certainly there are still large chunks of the company that would love to continue to merrily swing a monopoly club around the industry.

Which I would agree with (for the most part). Also, knowing Scott (as little as I do), he likely had this opinion before he became a Microsoft employee, and he'd still think this way if he weren't working for the company.

I think that many more people hate Microsoft due to the actions leading to the monopoly trial (i.e. decades ago) than hate them for IE8, Metro, Vista, or any other current issue.

I hate them mostly for launching half baked products, and then discontinuing them a few years later just when you got going with it (Silverlight, Managed DirectX, WPF). Good thing I completely ignored the whole Win RT thing, reeked of Silverlight all over again.

Today, Microsoft announced a new reference design hardware sample for potential OEMs and ODMs. The move, in conjunction with reduced hardware requirements like front facing keys, will allow new manufacturers to easily jump on board with Windows Phone.

There’s an ongoing conversation about the shifting role of developers and what that means for IT departments. They’re now shaping product and user experience with such great influence that businesses must understand their importance in order to be as successful as possible.

Those customers that created accounts before December 13, 2013 will have the expiration date of their “early adopter (free) status” extended to May 7, 2014. At that time, the early adopter program will end and everyone will transition to “standard terms”. Between now and then, we will enable the data export experience.

Microsoft is at Mobile World Congress today, and the company is announcing its first significant update to Windows 8.1. Microsoft's Joe Belfiore, who is now responsible for phones, tablets, and PCs at the software maker, revealed the update is coming "this spring" and is largely focused at improving the experience for mouse and keyboard users.

This is not the proper location for a press release. If you want to post on on CP there is a location [^]for it; but you'll need to contact the site administrators to do so (and pay an advertisement fee???).

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.-- Sarah Hoyt